Protests after thousands opt out of New York Common Core testing [View all]

[hrmjustin]

Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A new round of protests are scheduled and disgust about to be made public after elementary school students completed the latest Common Core testing.

The biggest complaint from teachers is that they were not given sufficient material or guidance to teach the new standards.

Many parents decided to opt their children out of the testing, with advocacy groups estimating that more than 28,000 of the state's 1.2 million third- through eighth-graders skipped this week's three-day English language arts assessments. That's more than double last year's number.

Teachers described the test as horrendous, complaining of inappropriate content and ambiguous questions they say do a terrible job of measuring reading comprehension.

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